Last year was a good year for oil and gas stocks, but unless a company had a refining and marketing operation, it was not a great year. Share prices rose ... Read Full Story »
Activist investor Carl Icahn had proposed that the world’s largest offshore drilling firm, Transocean Ltd. (NYSE: RIG), pay shareholders a one-time dividend of $4 a share and to replace 3 ... Read Full Story »
U.S. equity markets opened slightly lower this morning after the Bank of England left its key interest rate and asset purchase program unchanged (more coverage here). In Asia, China’s consumer ... Read Full Story »
U.S. equity markets opened lower this morning on relatively little economic data. In Europe, Germany reported that industrial production rose 1.2%, while a house price index in the U.K.rose 1.1% ... Read Full Story »
Investors and traders constantly seek new good research-driven ideas for stocks to buy and for stocks to sell. Some of these come from independent research and some come from the ... Read Full Story »
Argus is truly considered to be independent research firm, so it is not full of the traditional possible conflicts on interest seen in other Wall Street broker sell-side drive research. ... Read Full Story »
We have tracked the key short interest changes as of February 28 in the following oil and gas leaders: Baker Hughes Inc. (NYSE: BHI); BP PLC (NYSE: BP), Chesapeake Energy ... Read Full Story »
Now that Carl Icahn has a toehold at Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) and fired off a letter to that company’s board on how shareholders should be treated, he’s getting down ... Read Full Story »
U.S. equity markets opened lower this morning following news out of China that government is about to tighten restrictions on real estate transactions. The news pushed the Shanghai exchange down ... Read Full Story »
President Obama suggests cuts in Social Security and Medicare to end a battle over budget cuts. (Reuters) Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. (NYSE: BMY) may try a large acquisition to improve its ... Read Full Story »
U.S. equity markets opened lower this morning following a number of disappointing data releases in Europe and Asia. Eurozone PMI remains on the pessimistic side, with a reading of 47.9, ... Read Full Story »
We have tracked the key short interest changes as of February 15 in the following oil and gas leaders: Baker Hughes Inc. (NYSE: BHI), BP PLC (NYSE: BP), Chesapeake Energy ... Read Full Story »
Nearly three years after the explosion and sinking of an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico that killed 11 workers and spilled 5 million barrels of oil, a federal ... Read Full Story »
U.S. equity markets opened slightly higher this morning on better economic news out of Europe and basically good data in the U.S. In Europe, the eurozone trade balance came in ... Read Full Story »
These are some of this Friday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall St. research calls. CenturyLink Inc. (NYSE: CTL) cut to Hold from Buy at Argus, and ... Read Full Story »